The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 4, Volume 3. Page: 41
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CONFEDERATE AUTHORITIES.
2. The company selected is at the time of volunteering below the
minimum number prescribed by regulations.
3 No person made liable to service under this order will be per-
mitted to join or will be assigned to any company which has more
than sixty-four privates on the roll until all the companies in the
service from the State of which the volunteer or conscript is a resi-
dent shall have the minimum number prescribed by regulations.
4. Upon the company being selected, the volunteer will receive
from the enrolling officer a certificate to the effect that he has so
volunteered, and no volunteer will be received in any company except
on such certificate.
III. Persons who fail to make selection according to the provisions
of this order, and at the time of enlistment, will be assigned accord-
ing to existing regulations.
IV. All officers in command of companies authorized under this
order to receive conscripts or volunteers will forthwith send to the
commandant of conscripts of the State accurate certified rolls of
their companies, and without such roll, showing that they do not
exceed sixty-four privates, there will not be assigned any conscript or
volunteer.
By order:
S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT,
Richmond, Va., January 24, 1864.
WYNDHAM ROBERTSON, Esq.,
Chairman Committee on Confederate Relations,
House of Delegates of Virginia:
SIR: I regret that other more pressing engagements have prevented
me from sooner acknowledging your communication of the 13th
instant relative to the forced withdrawal of able-bodied male slaves
from localities within the lines of the enemy or exposed to their
inroads. The aims which were contemplated in the proposition here-
tofore made by me to obtain the sanction of the Legislature of Vir-
ginia to such removal were chiefly two: First, to save such slaves to
the owners and prevent the abstraction of so much productive and
valuable labor from the Commonwealth; and secondly, to prevent their
being seduced or compelled by the enemy to recruit his armies and
increase the resources employed by them in the atrocious warfare
waged against us.
In reference to the first of these ends, I am free to admit that infor-
mation gathered by me from inquiries made and manifestations of
sentiment in different exposed localities lead me to concur in the
opinion you express as to the repugnance and apprehension enter-
tained by owners of the effect of such proceedings upon their slave
property. They should be able to form the best judgment as to the
means of preserving their property, and the Department is disposed
to defer to their judgment and relinquish all idea of acting with a
view to the preservation of the slaves to their owners or the Common-
wealth. In the second point it is evident that the contingencies may
occur which would render it an imperative military duty on the part
of the Government to remove, as far as its power allowed, able-bodied
men who were about to be, and without such action would certainly
be, placed in the Army of the enemy. Heretofore the enemy have
used mainly seduction, and, except in very limited localities and those41
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